Word: staking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stake. The only remotely serious opposition to Griffin is Tennessee's Howard Baker, 51, who is more acceptable to the G.O.P.'s right wing. With the Republicans out of the White House and looking for a Senator who can serve as a national spokesman. Baker might exert the sort of appeal that the able Griffin seems to lack...
Though Carter has a big stake in the outcome of the various contests, he has not taken sides-and will not, unless he wants to alienate the entire Congress. Determined to be a strong President, he cannot be cheered by the prospect of strong leadership in a rival power center. But if he wants to succeed in such goals as reforming the tax structure and revising the welfare system, nothing less than strong congressional leaders will...
Presidential candidates chosen by Mexico's dominant P.R.I. (Partido Revolucionario Institutional) are as certain of election as machine aldermen in Chicago. For that reason, power tends to drain rapidly from their lameduck predecessors as Presidents-elect stake out their policies. Since he was tapped to succeed Luis Echeverria as Mexico's President 14 months ago, José López Portillo has broken with that tradition. Even though he carried out a grueling 40,600-mile campaign from the oilfields and swamps of Tabasco to the high sierra, "Don Pepe" has promised only to govern by the "laws...
...against Harvard investment in South Africa. In 1976, CAR research shows Harvard Overseers are still profitably interested in South Africa. There black labor costs even less than it does in the U.S., since racism is formalized by apartheid there but it not here. If Harvard quite literally has a stake in South African apartheid, is it any wonder that apartheid prevails in the administration of languages and literatures in this institution...
...belated recognition of the heroin problem, the Dutch States-General (parliament) this month upped the penalties for heroin possession from four to twelve years. In the short run though, the best hope for snipping the Chinese Connection lies in internecine gang violence. With hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, rival triads cannot peaceably split the spoils. At least twelve Chinese have been murdered in vendettas, which began last year with the killing of Chung Mon, a 55-year-old kingpin of the traffic. European narcs are now hoping for the type of squealer's revenge that helped smash...